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Hello everyone, welcome back to The Edtech Podcast! In this week’s episode we talk to Aldo De Pape, the Founder of TeachPitch, and Cat Scutt, The Director of Education and Research at the Chartered College of Teaching. Both guests discuss the struggles and benefits around professional development for teachers. This episode was recorded at Bett 2018. A BIG THANKS to Unio by Harness and Class Central for sponsoring this episode.

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